Wendy went through The Cooking Blog and put together a list of the best Super Bowl Party recipes she could find. If you are throwing a party next weekend, these are worth checking out.
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Christmas 2011
I hope everyone had a great Christmas. After a daring battery run to Walmart on Saturday morning, we met up with the Sieberts for coffee/tea and to exchange gifts and Christmas cheer. After that we headed out to Warman to Lee and Brittany’s place for Christmas Eve dinner to open gifts. Wendy talked about the [...]
The end of the season
Mark’s football banquet was last night and a bunch of packed the two banquet rooms of Smiley’s and honoured the team, the coaches, and the manger. It was a really successful season and I have never seen a team improve that much. After going over a season without scoring a touchdown, they scored 55 points [...]
How to survive holidays with the in-laws
With my brother Lee getting engaged, this could come in useful for Brittney on how to deal with us. Writers: If you are not affiliated with an academic institution, avoid saying you are working on a novel. “Freelancing” is way better than any kind of “fiction writing”! The etymological meaning of freelancer as “mercenary warrior” [...]
10 Things That Make Your Home a Target for Thieves
From Consumer Reports A home is robbed every 14.6 seconds and the average dollar loss per burglary is $2,119, according to statistics just released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And that’s the good news because burglaries were down slightly in 2010 compared to 2009. Sure you lock your doors and windows when you’re not [...]
The Holt Bulldogs vs. the Babineau Warriors
Mark played his first Kinsmen Football League game on Sunday at the SaskTel Sports Centre. The Babineau Warriors played hard but lost 27-0. Their defense played well but their offense couldn’t get untracked. Plus when you are dealing with 11 & 12 year olds you never know what weird things are going to happen. I [...]
Mark
I haven’t been posting much here about what’s going around the house but Wendy has a couple of posts about Mark. The big news with Mark is that he is playing pee wee football for the Babineau Warriors in the Kinsmen Football League. In real terms it means that instead of coming home from work, [...]
Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective
So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]
What has Warren Kinsella done lately?
The other day in the hospital, Mark complained to me about his Twitter user name. He doesn’t like @coopermark and said it looked stupid. I replied to him that others have that form of username. When pressed who I was referring to, I said Warren Kinsella’s username on Twitter is @kinsellawarren. Mark asked who Kinsella [...]
